Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 18:23:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: trsteins@pcisys.net (Tracy Steinwand) Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mgetty help needed Message-ID: <199812030223.SAA03218@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Dec 1998 02:21:16 GMT." <3665f505.5646733@mail.pcisys.net>
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> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.7 on a PPro. When I initially installed the > system, I went overboard and loaded many applications that I thought > I'd get around to running/playing with. When I learned later that I > was quickly running out of hard disk space, I decided to pkg_delete > many of the items I felt I no longer needed. Apparently, I went > overboard!!! Now when I boot my machine, I receive the following > error > > login: Nov 29 04:26:46 steins init: Can't exec getty > '/usr/local/sbin/mgetty' for port /dev/cuaa1: no such file or > directory > > The mgetty program appears to be missing from /usr/local/sbin. My > problem is that I don't know where it went or how to get it back. Any > ideas? You don't want it back, you want to restore /etc/ttys to its original state before you added the mgetty entry. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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